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From: "Vladimir Zhbanov (vzhbanov AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
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On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 11:18:10PM +0200, Stefan Salewski wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-07-07 at 23:50 +0300, Vladimir Zhbanov (vzhbanov AT gmail DOT com)
> [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> > Guile Scheme is a high level language, too. And there are GUI
> > toolkits for it. However, we don't use them and invent our own wheel,
> > probably being afraid of new dependencies. Recall, for instance,
> > gwave/gaw, if you're aware of them.
> 
> I don't know much about Scheme, but I do know that Lisp dialects are
> interesting and powerful languages in general. But I although know that
> lisp is generally only teached in CS at university, people with other
> technical background may have a hard time to learn it. At least for
> younger people it may be hard to find motivation to learn it.
> 
> I don't know much about performance of Scheme. For some EDA stuff, PCB
> related auto-router or DRC, performance may be important. For simulation
> too. So I would choose only a really fast language today.

Probably the following links to the blog of one of the guile developers
could be of interest for you, if you want to have some notion about
guile performance and work now and in the near future and in comparison
with Python/Ruby:
  http://wingolog.org/archives/2013/11/26/a-register-vm-for-guile
  http://wingolog.org/archives/2014/01/19/elf-in-guile

Cheers,
  Vladimir